Language in culture. lectures on the social semiotics of language, paperback/***

Showing how talk makes identities, categories and groups across time and space, Silverstein reveals how cultural knowledge is built discursively, stabilizing and changing both societies and politics.

This book is for those who wish to understand how communication works, and how ways of talking enable social interaction, persuasion and coordination.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Michael (University of Chicago) Silverstein Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises Number of pages: 250 Publication date: 2022 Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 21 Cover type: Paperback / softback.